Tom Hanks looks set to play hero pilot Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s true story about a miraculous emergency landing.
The Saving Mr Banks star is in talks with Clint and Warner Brothers to take on the lead role in the as-yet untitled film about the US Airways pilot who made a dramatic emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River in 2009, according to Deadline.
His plane ran into trouble shortly after take off when a flock of geese got caught in the engines, but quick-thinking Sully managed to land in the river, saving all 155 people on board who clambered out onto the wings to wait to be rescued.
When Clint announced he would be making the film with Warner Brothers, plenty of people assumed that he would cast himself as the pilot – but with Tom’s turns in films including Apollo 13 and Captain Phillips, he’s an obvious choice to play a hero.
The film’s script has been adapted from Captain Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow’s book Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters.
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